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Journal of Intellectual Property Law Volume 20 | Issue 1 Article 2 September 2012 Copy Game for High Score: The irsF t Video Game Lawsuit William K. Ford Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/jipl Part of the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons, and the Intellectual Property Law Commons Recommended Citation William K. Ford, Copy Game for High Score: The First Video Game Lawsuit, 20 J. Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2012). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/jipl/vol20/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Intellectual Property Law by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. Please share how you have benefited from this access For more information, please contact [email protected]. Ford: Copy Game for High Score: The First Video Game Lawsuit JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW VOLUME 20 FALL 2012 NUMBER I ARTICLES COPY GAME FOR HIGH SCORE: THE FIRST VIDEO GAME LAWSUIT William K Ford TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ................................................ 2 II. BACKGROUND ................................ .............. 8 A. ATARI, INC ..................... ......................... 8 B. ATARI'S PONG...........................................10 C. THE JACKALS' "PONGS" ...................................... 15 D. FOUR-PLAYER "PONGS" .................................. 18 III. THE LAWSUIT .............................................. 21 A. THE MERITS............................................24 1. Copyright Infringement.................................25 2. Unfair Competilion....................................... 31 B. SETTLEMENT ............................. .............. 35 IV. CONCLUSION ............................... ........................ 39 * Assistant Professor of Law, The John Marshall Law School. The title of the Article is, of course, an homage to Atari's Pon& for which the key instruction was: "Avoid Missing Ball for High Score." See Pong (Atari 1972). Thanks to Shannon Ford, Raizel Liebler, Kimberly Regan, and Dave Schwartz for comments on earlier drafts. 1 Published by Digital Commons @ Georgia Law, 2012 1 Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Vol. 20, Iss. 1 [2012], Art. 2 2 J. INTELL PROP.L [Vol. 20:1 "See, like I said, th[e] video game is yesterday's newspaper. ." -David Braun, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Allied Leisure Industries, Inc., June 14, 19741 I. INTRODUCTION Commentators and industry historians generally agree that the multi-billion dollar video game industry began forty years ago in November 1972 with Atari's release of Pong.2 Pong is among the simplest of video games: a version of ping pong or tennis requiring little more to play than a ball, two paddles, a scoring indicator, and a couple of memorable sounds.3 While it was not the first video game,4 Pong was the first video game hit.5 As such, Pong demonstrated the Deposition of David H. Braun at 40, Magnavox Co. v. Bally Mfg. Corp., No. 74 C 1030 (N.D. Ill. July 18, 1974) (deposition taken June 14, 1974) [hereinafter Braun Deposition]. 2 See, e.g., The Stoy of Pong, RETRO GAMER no. 104, 2012, at 22, 29 ("The impact of Pong on the industry simply cannot be diminished."); HAROLD GOLDBERG, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO Us: How FIFTY YEARS OF VIDEOGAMES CONQUERED Pop CULTURE 21 (2011) ("[T]he age of the videogame arcade was born."); TRISTAN DONOVAN, REPLAY: THE HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES 29 (2010) ("Pong's popularity sent shockwaves through the amusement business.... The success of Pong restructured the amusement business."); Matt Barton & Bill Longuidice, The HistoU of Pong: Avoid Missing Game to Start Industy, GAMASUTRA (Jan. 9, 2009), http://www.gamasutra. com/view/feature/132293/the-historyoLpong-avoid-miissing.php ("Although it wasn't the first, Atari's Pong was the first video game to get the ball rolling-or bouncing, as it were."); MARTIN CAMPBELL-KELLY, FROM AIRLINE RESERVATIONS TO SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: A HISTORY OF THE SOFIWARE INDUSTRY 269, 272 (2003) ("It is not an overstatement to say that Pong, produced by Atari, was the springboard for today's vast computer entertainment industry." (italics added)); Modern Marvels-Video Games: Behind the Fun (History Channel television broadcast Oct. 9, 2000) (available on DVD from A&E Home Video), at 15:26 ("Odyssey, the world's first home video game, was a moderate success, but another game [Pong] took America by storm."); Peter W. Bernstein, Atari and the Video-Game Explosion, FORTUNE, July 27, 1981, at 40 ("In the beginning, there was Pong, the electronic version of table tennis that sparked the creation of a new industry." (italics added)). A notable dissenter from the view that Pong started the industry is Ralph Baer, the lead designer of the Magnavox Odyssey home game console released in 1972. See RALPH H. BAER, VIDEOGAMES: IN THE BEGINNING 7 (2005) [hereinafter BAER, VIDEOGAMES: IN THE BEGINNING] ("A look at the ... detailed data of Magnavox videogame sales will put the nonsense about Pong having started the industry to rest."). Cf Ralph H. Baer, Foreword in THE MEDIUM OF THE VIDEO GAME, at xiv-xv (Mark J.P. Wolf ed. 2001) ("PONG launched the arcade video game industry with a bang." (emphasis added)). 3 See Pong (Atari 1972). 4 For discussions of the earliest computer and video games, see DONOVAN, supra note 2, at 3-13; John Anderson, Who Real4 Invented the Video Game?, CREATIVE COMPUTING VIDEO AND ARCADE GAMES, Spring 1983, at 8; Notice of Prior Art by Atari, Inc. and Sears, Roebuck and Co. at 8, Magnavox Co. v. Bally Mfg. Corp., Nos. 74-1030, 74-2510, 75-3153, 75-3933 (N.D. Ill. May 26, 1976); Sam Shatavsky, Games Computers Play, POPULAR Scl., Oct. 1970, at 44. https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/jipl/vol20/iss1/2 2 Ford: Copy Game for High Score: The First Video Game Lawsuit 2012] COPY GAME FOR HIGH SCORE 3 commercial viability of video games, and its success quickly generated a new industry, initially one of close imitators. Early on, much of what the industry produced was unlicensed copies and derivatives of Pong.6 Pong itself was inspired by a game called Table Tennis for the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console.7 With so much unauthorized copying of a successful product occurring, it is not surprising that a lawsuit resulted in the fall of 1973,8 one that predates the more well-known litigation over the so-called "Pong Patent," U.S. Reissue Patent No. 28,507 (the '507 patent).9 The 1973 suit, likely the video game industry's first lawsuit of any type,10 was between two of Atari's competitors, Allied Leisure Industries, Inc. and Midway Manufacturing, Inc." The dispute involved Allied Leisure's mechanical drawing of a printed circuit board, meaning the drawing or "artwork" depicting the layout of one of the typically green boards found in many electronic devices. 12 Specifically, Allied Leisure claimed Midway had infringed its copyright in a drawing of a printed circuit board for its four-player tennis game, basically a four-player version of Atari's Pong.13 FIGURE 1 provides a small excerpt from the drawing attached to Allied Leisure's complaint. Allied Leisure also included a related claim against Midway for unfair competition. 14 The case settled in April 1974 before a decision on the merits could be rendered.15 5 See supra text accompanying note 2. 6 See, e.g., GOLDBERG, supra note 2, at 30 ("[Florty companies made knockoffs [of Pong]."); DONOVAN, supra note 2, at 29 ("Within a year of Pong's debut ... more than 15 companies had piled into the coin-operated video game business that once was Atari's alone."); STEVEN L. KENT, THE ULTIMATE HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMEs 61 (2001) ('Within three months of Pong's release, competitors with names like Electronic Paddle Ball started to surface."); A Red-Hot Market for Video Games, Bus. WK., Nov. 10, 1973, at 213 ("Atari's instant success has inspired a dozen or more companies to jump into the manufacture of video games, some of them outright copies of Pang."). 7 See infra Part II.B. 8 See Complaint, Allied Leisure Indus. v. Midway Mfg. Co., No. 73 C 2682 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 19, 1973). 9 See U.S. Patent No. Re. 28,507 (filed Apr. 25, 1974); Steve Chang & Ross Dannenberg, The Ten Most Important Video Game Patents, GAMASUTRA (Jan. 19, 2007) (ranking the '507 patent as the most important video game patent of all time), http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070119/ dannenberg_.06.shtml. 10 The earliest cases discussed in the literature are part of the litigation involving the '507 patent. See, e.g., JON FESTINGER, VIDEO GAME LAw 7-12 (2005); KENT, supra note 6, at 46-48,368. 11 See Complaint, Allied Leisure Indus., supra note 8, at 1. 12 See PREBEN LUND, GENERATION OF PRECISION ARTWORK FOR PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS 10 (1978). 13 Complaint, Allied Leisure Indus., supra note 8, at 3. 14 See id.at 1. 15 See Stipulated Dismissal Order, Allied Leisure Indus. v. Midway Mfg. Co., No. 73 C 2682 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 12, 1974) (dismissing the case "with prejudice to any action based upon any acts Published by Digital Commons @ Georgia Law, 2012 3 Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Vol. 20, Iss. 1 [2012], Art. 2 4 J. INTELL PROP.L [Vol. 20:1 FIGURE 1: EXCERPT FROM ALLIED LEISURE'S PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD DRAWING16 too-I The A/lied Leisure lawsuit is missing from the existing literature, both popular and academic, on the video game industry.'7 This Article provides an account of the case. Why focus on a forgotten and unknown case that quickly settled? Even with Atari on the sidelines of the case, the story of Allied Leisure is a significant part of the story of Pong, the game that started the video game industry. The case is interwoven with the major events of the industry's birth.
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